On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:13:05PM +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
>
> The sequence of writing to port 0x70 / reading from port 0x71 reflects
> reading from the computer's "cmos" nvram memory.
> bit 7 of 0x70 is reserved for disabling NMIs, so the actual information
> is stored in byte 0x79[8] in th
2008/8/21 Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
>>> boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS.
>>>
>>
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
>> boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS.
>>
>> For my Dell XPS1330M I can determine if the Media bu
Javier Martín wrote:
> 2008/8/20 Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:59 +0200
>> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote:
Hi
Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they u
2008/8/20 Colin D Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:59 +0200
> Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
>> > boot a special e
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:59 +0200
Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
> > boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary
> > OS
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
>> boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS.
>>
>> For my Dell XPS1330M I can determine if the Media button
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:57:22AM +0200, Per Öberg wrote:
> Hi
>
> Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
> boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS.
>
> For my Dell XPS1330M I can determine if the Media button was pressed by
> first writ
Hi
Some laptops, e.g., from Dell have a special button that they use to
boot a special embedded OS for media only instead of the ordinary OS.
For my Dell XPS1330M I can determine if the Media button was pressed by
first writing 0xf9 to port 0x70 and then testing bit 0x08 of port 0x71.
It would b